Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] its [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Czechoslovak government has allocated a budget to promote its position on the dam abroad . |
| 2 | The latter case found its way on the front page of the Sunday People under the headline BEAUTY QUEEN 'S LIFE OF CRIME Terrorised wife 's story . |
| 3 | Given the miserable legislative record of the Duma and its manifest inability to impose its will on the government , the policy of clinging to the Duma in the hope that popular respect for the Russian parliament would grow proved vain . |
| 4 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 5 | Religion lost its hold on the social imagination when it was seen to embody qualities opposed to science : irrationality and superstition . |
| 6 | It was also the first opportunity at national level for the electorate to deliver its verdict on the DLP , which had been formed by Roh in January 1990 through the merger of his minority ruling party with two of the three main opposition parties [ see pp. 37187-88 ] . |
| 7 | The Admiralty stood its ground on the principle of always maintaining a balanced fleet , based on a limited number of capital ships , which , in 1957 , were generally agreed to be the aircraft-carriers . |
| 8 | Less favoured designs such as Classes 25 , 40 and 45 were withdrawn completely , and the Railfreight sector relinquished its claim on the costly Class 50 . |
| 9 | SUN INAUGURATES ITS MULTIPROCESSING ON THE DESKTOP CAMPAIGN WITH NEW LINE , CUTS SPARCSTATION 10 TAGS |
| 10 | The sun puts its colour on the curtains |
| 11 | In the discussion document , the committee gives its opinion on the extent to which the provision of these reassurances is the responsibility of boards of directors , the extent to which it is the responsibility of external auditors and the extent to which these reassurances can not be provided by either boards of directors or external auditors . |
| 12 | DASA 's motives smack of industrial machismo and a desire to see its name on the nose of a jet . |
| 13 | 5 Now think about what actually happens as your group starts its life on the island sometimes things go well ; sometimes not so well . |
| 14 | The group based its objection on the assurance that had been given to parliament that the hearing would not be held until the inspectorate was satisfied with the PWR 's safety . |
| 15 | On June 18 , a Senate commission of inquiry issued its report on the transfusion system , noting delay in implementing a screening process , a fragmented decision-making process and a system in which " the logic of industry allowed the professional code of ethics to be disregarded " . |
| 16 | The subroutine call instruction places its address on the SJNS ( pushing down all earlier entries ) and jumps to the specified store address . |
| 17 | In the State Farm case the Supreme Court founded its intervention on the arbitrary and capricious test , but then gave a broader reading to that phrase than that provided in earlier cases . |
| 18 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend give us any estimate of the time that will elapse before the European Court gives its judgment on the matter ? |
| 19 | The local papers turned their attention to the German invasion of Belgium and the problems of recruiting while the Board of Education closed its file on the case without any apparent resolution . |
| 20 | The tax was rushed through Parliament to ensure its arrival on the statute books before the election , and it may repeat some of the community charge 's mistakes . |
| 21 | The 987 will let HP compete against the whole AS/400 family and gives the company added ammunition to continue its assault on the downsizing mainframe market . |
| 22 | Egypt and Syria attack Israeli positions but Israel 's victory strengthens its hold on the Sinai and the Golan Heights . |
| 23 | BRITAIN 'S Nuclear Installations Inspectorate , which is responsible for ensuring the safety of nuclear power , this week puts its credibility on the line at the public inquiry into the Sizewell B reactor . |
| 24 | On July 31 the European Commission issued its opinion on the membership application formally submitted by Sweden in July 1991 [ see p. 38353 ] . |
| 25 | This in turn made its impact on the choice of precious substances and not least on the skill and inventiveness with which these were mounted and displayed . |
| 26 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 27 | In order to deal with the problem of means , the government says , we provide housing benefits and the subsidy , this is the government speaking , the subsidy goes into the demand , it goes into benefit there 'll be no subsidy left if the government has its way on the supply side . |
| 28 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 29 | Furthermore , Cuba 's new arrangement with the Soviet Union reduced its dependence on the multi-nationals . |
| 30 | This approach concentrates its attention on the behaviour of bureaucrats as maximizers of budgets or staff and seeks to identify ways in which that behaviour can be modified by changing the context of their decision-making . |